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" Sixthly, Infedls being their food, I never faw 

 " any toad ihew any liking or diflike to any plant*. 



" Seventhly, I hardly remember any perfons ta- 

 *' king it up except my father and myfelf : I do 

 " not know whether it had any particular attach- 

 " ment to us. 



" Eighthly, In refpedl to its end, I anfwer thi^ 

 *' laft quere. Had it not been for a tame raven, I 

 " make no doubt but it would have been now liv- 

 " ingi who one day feeing it at the mouth of its 

 " hole, pulled it out, and although I refcued it, 

 " pulled out one eye, and hurt it fo, that notwith- 

 " (landing its living a twelvemonth it never enjoyed 



" itfelf, 



** the curious impertinent a fixed look that marked his dif- 



** quietnefs and fear ; but he foon returned to his work with 



** more precipitation than before, and a moment after he 



** appeared undetermined whether he fliould continue it or 



** not. The female likewife difcovered her uneafmefs at the 



*' fight of the ftranger, by motions that interrupted fome- 



^* times the male in his operation. At length, whether the 



** filence and fleady pollure of the fpedtator had diffipated 



" their fear, or that the cafe was urgent, the male refumed 



** his work with the fame vigour, and fuccefsfully performed 



** his fundion.'* 



* This queflion arofe from an afTertion of Linnaus, that 

 the toad delighted in filthy herbs. Dekdatur Cotula^ Jacsa^ 

 Stachyde fcetidi. The unhappy deformity of the animal 

 feems to be the only ground of thisT as well as another mifre- 

 prefentation, of its conveying a poifon with its pimples, its 

 touchy and even its breath. Verruca ladefa.ntei venenata 

 infujee tadu^ anhelitu, 



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